California Events This Weekend: October 30–November 1, 2026

22 California listings have dates that overlap Friday through Sunday, October 30–November 1, 2026. 6 are fairs, festivals, and one-day events, and the other 16 are longer seasons that are open during part of the weekend.

California’s fall weekends split between the farm, wine country and the coast. Pumpkin patches and corn mazes run for weeks, from Underwood Family Farms in Moorpark and Bates Nut Farm in Valley Center to the Petaluma Pumpkin Patch and Spina Farms in Morgan Hill. Wine regions keep their own calendar, with Paso Robles Harvest Wine Weekend and the Santa Barbara Vintners Festival in Santa Ynez both held in mid-October.

On the coast, the Santa Barbara Harbor & Seafood Festival and the Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival were one-weekend events in October, while Big Bear Lake and Huntington Beach stretch Oktoberfest over two months. Inland, the Big Fresno Fair and the Desert Empire Fair in Ridgecrest kept the fair season going, and Oakhurst hosted the Yosemite Celtic Festival & Fall Highland Games.

Late October turns toward Día de los Muertos, with celebrations at Hollywood Forever, on Olvera Street, in San Pedro and at OMCA in Oakland, plus Panteón Fest in Oxnard. Halloween nights fill up too. Knott’s Scary Farm, The Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor and Howl-O-Scream at SeaWorld San Diego are season-long listings, so look up which nights they run. By late November the weekends shift to holiday parades, including the Hollywood Christmas Parade and the San Diego Bay Parade of Lights.

California is long, so plan around one region at a time.